This video is only 90 seconds long, but it’s devastatingly effective.
The following ad imagines what would happen if Syria’s current crisis was happening in the western world, in London to be specific. The video takes place over the course of a year, and shows what happens in one little girl’s life as her country is ripped apart by civil conflict.
It makes us ask: Would our community care more about what is happening in Syria, if it were happening in the western world?
Just because it isn’t happening here, doesn’t mean it isn’t happening.
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Top Comments
Good God. That video was such an incredible way to highlight this. Quite shocked after watching that. You do tend to get a degree of separation simply by living in the West and not having to live a life like that.
Anyone who needed this ad to appreciate what's happening in Syria hasn't been paying attention. Anyone with a modicum of intelligence who looks at the news knows what's going on. The real question is what to do about it? Someone below says take in refugees but even if we could take all 3 million (which presumably not even the Greens want) is permanently removing 15% of the population consistent with a future functioning country?
The problem is that Tony Abbott (insert obligatory mad monk reference) said, there are no goodies, only baddies and baddies. One the one hand you have a blood soaked dictator who will do literally anything to stay in power but who is liberal on religion and women's rights. Against him you have a grab bag of opposition groups, at least some of whom are medieval fanatics who want to put women in niqabs and purge Syria of its Christian and Alawite population and whose actions have shown they'd equal Assad's bloodletting if given half a chance.
And even if we did know who to support, how? Despite drones and aircraft, the only way you can impose civilisation and order on a country that doesn't want it is the same way the romans did - by putting young men (and now young women) on the ground. Some will be killed and, inevitably, some young officer, when faced with the challenge of keeping order in an angry mob will order too many shots and kill innocent civilians. We simply have no appetite for such a thankless task. Unfortunately the only thing we can do is try and cut the flow of military supplies into the region and wait for the war to burn itself out and in the meantime hope that the Iranians, Saudis and Israelis stay out.